Role: Mainframe CICS Admin/Sysprog

Location: Remote (Herndon, Virginia)

Duration: Long Term Contract

Statement of Work:

The purpose of this request is to respond to a Request for Quote from the Railroad Retirement Board for assistance with mainframe staffing

Task Description:

The Mainframe CICS admin will be responsible for all installation, maintenance, and monitoring of all CICS regions to meet/exceed key business measurements. Additionally, the admin will be part of a 4-person team, assisting and backing each other on DB2 and RACF if needed.

• Recent experience working with the Railroad Retirement Board (1-5 years)
• Install and support CICS software products upon RRB request
• Test CICS software products, and related applications to ensure requested functionality is available
• Monitor and maintain licensing for CICS specific monitoring software provided by RRB
• Monitor mutually agreed upon metrics for CICS
• Participate in CICS software testing to validate system functionality, connectivity, and execution of IVP
• Provide performance-reporting package regarding CICS utilization / consumption
• Report incidents to CICS software product manufacturer regarding supported software products
• Maintain requirements for configuration provided by the RRB
• Perform CICS configuration
• Maintain all CICS software at a release level that is supported by the respective software vendor under the following conditions:
• Contractor's staff to provide a supported release in a timely manner
• RRB will work with the Contractor to provide reasonable test environment and implementation time to apply maintenance and/or perform upgrade of supported software

Required skills/Level of Experience :

• Mid-Level or higher CICS admin experience (3+ years)
• General understanding DB2 and (RACF, 2+ years)
• Client interaction experience (3+ years). (Federal client experience a plus)
• Experience working with the Railroad Retirement Board (1+ years)

Nice to have skills:

• Client communication client interaction (2+ years)
• Working experience with a small team, in a very stable environment (2+years)
• Positive attitude, flexible able to work in fast-paced environment (5+ years).
• Cloud certification and experience (2+ years)